MLA says RCMP questioned her about leaked safer supply government documents
A B.C. Conservative MLA says she was questioned by the RCMP for publicly releasing leaked government documents about the safer supply drug program. As Katie DeRosa reports, the premier and the solicitor general say they were unaware police had launched an investigation.
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‘The dust will fly' – but control measures returning this fall to Chatham-Kent
Chatham-Kent council has voted to reinstate its dust suppression program after backlash from rural residents who were left frustrated by the initial decision to cut it during 2025 budget talks. Council voted 13-3 on Monday night to bring the program back, months after eliminating it in an effort to save about $1.3 million from the municipal budget — a move that represented a 0.8 per cent savings on the tax rate. The change of direction came after vocal opposition from residents who live on gravel roads, including farmers and members of the Kent Federation of Agriculture. 'We're very happy that it's coming back,' said KFA president Jim Brackett, who lives on a dirt road in Morpeth. But Brackett warned that reinstating the program isn't enough — it has to be done properly. 'It has to be applied properly and has to be applied at the right rate, it has to be the right product, and it has to be done twice a year to be the most effective,' he said. The dust, he added, has serious consequences for both people and crops along with motorist's safety. 'It's bad for our health. And if you were doing a construction site in town, you would be obligated to mitigate the dust,' said Brackett. 'I wash my vehicle every couple of days because of this. My house, I can't open the windows. My crops, it'll form a layer over the crops and interfere with translocation, increase the heat.' He explained, 'I already know of one resident that's been forced off the road because he was in a cloud of dust.' Although residents have been calling for immediate relief, municipal staff say the program won't resume until sometime this fall due to tendering and administrative delays. 'If they wanted to, they could be doing it quickly, but it sounds like it's going to be September before we get it back,' said Brackett. 'I may not get dust control this year, but someone may. So as long as some of our members get dust control and some of our people that travel the rural roads, then that's a plus versus nothing.' Ward 6 Councillor Michael Bondy, who originally voted to cut the program, brought the issue back to the council table after hearing from residents across the municipality. 'I heard from a lot of rural voices, and they felt pretty slighted and, frankly, kind of ripped off because something that had been done for 40 plus years was cut from the budget with my help, because I voted to help cut it from the budget, because we were told by staff that it's ineffective, it doesn't work and it's a waste,' said Bondy. Bondy told CTV News there are upwards of 1700 kilometres of gravel roads across the municipality. 'It was just another one of these instances of the rural voices just weren't heard and I'm a city guy, but I represent all of Chatham-Kent as a councillor, right? So I thought, well, I'll bring this back. This should be an easy one. Well, not quite that easy, but it did pass after an hour and a half discussion.' Bondy says red tape is now the main hurdle. 'The dust will fly unless the process can be changed because there has to be a report to council. It has to be tendered. The tender award has to be signed and contracted... blah blah. What am I saying? I'm saying red tape is what it is. It's red tape.' While hopeful that staff can speed up the process, Bondy acknowledged it may take time. 'I'm really hoping that, you know, staff can maybe get this moving a little earlier as it is only the beginning of June,' he said. 'I thought this was going to be rather simple, because it's been done for 40 plus years, by the same people. So I didn't think it would be difficult to reinstate. But I'm not complaining because we did vote to reinstate it, so, you know, we're halfway there, I would say.' Meantime, residents like Brackett are cautiously optimistic, saying any progress is better than none.
CBC
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3 charged with manslaughter over 2022 homicide in Yellowknife
The N.W.T. RCMP has charged three people with manslaughter with a firearm over the death of Feysal Farah in Yellowknife in 2022. In a news release Wedesday, police said Salim Shekh, 24, of Edmonton and Synthea Hope, 34, of Fort Simpson have both been charged. A 20-year-old man who was a youth at the time has also been charged. In August 2022, police responded to a call at an apartment building in Yellowknife's downtown and found Farah's body. They said at the time that Farah, 36, died after being shot at a building on Con Road. Shekh and Hope are in custody, in Edmonton and in the N.W.T. respectively. The third person has not yet been located.
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B.C. man sentenced after arson at home of Ukrainian priest
A Nanaimo, B.C., man has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison after an arson attack at an Ukrainian priest's home in Victoria. The fire in the 1100-block of Caledonia Avenue on April 20, 2022, threatened the family of Father Yuriy Vyshnevskyy, the parish priest at the Ukrainian Catholic Church of St. Nicholas, located next door. Now, Walter (Theo) Machinski has been sentenced after pleading guilty to one count of arson with disregard for human life. He was known to the family, Victoria police said, but the incident was "not motivated by hatred towards an identifiable group." Machinski was arrested in April 2023, according to police, who say the home targeted by the arson attack remains uninhabitable to this day. "The bravery of the family and the swift response of our officers and Victoria firefighters prevented a tragedy," read a statement from Victoria acting deputy chief Michael Brown. Three girls had to be lowered by their mother out of the second-floor window to their father and two bystanders waiting below, Dan Atkinson, acting chief of the Victoria Fire Department said at the time. The mother then had to be rescued by firefighters with the help of a ladder. Vyshnevskyy said in April 2022 that his wife woke up around 1 a.m. PT on the night of the fire after hearing noises. She assumed it was one of her children walking around the house, then realized the sounds were coming from the front porch. "The next thing she heard was the sound of ... emptying the bottle and the smell of gasoline," he said. "Someone was pouring [it] inside the house through the mail slot." "She yelled, she called me and said, 'Yuriy, get up, someone's pouring this into the house' ... Up until that point, there was no fire." But almost immediately after he was alerted to the gasoline, Vyshnevskyy said, someone started a fire which spread "really quickly." By the time he got downstairs, the front room was already ablaze. As smoke filled the house, he said he had to abandon his plans to put out the fire himself, and then escaped through the back door. Outside, he saw his wife and children through the upstairs window, gasping for air. His neighbour then helped encourage the stranded children to jump — their only safe way out of the house. "They trusted us and and they were brave," Vyshnevskyy said. Following the fire, Atkinson praised the parents for their quick thinking. "It's really an incredible story and a testament to both the parents of the children to ensure their safety by closing doors behind them to help prevent rapid fire spread into the areas where they were," he said. "It certainly could have been much worse."
